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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: One second, I can only go on what I see. Mr. Fraser said somewhere that the chair was to be appointed in 2017. Was the chair appointed in 2017?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: This does not makes sense to me. I am looking at the accounts for 2016 and I am looking at Mr. Fraser's comments on the accounts, which are in 2017, and the chairperson was to be appointed in 2017.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Fraser clarify for me the money, over €2 million, relating to the Office of Public Works? It went up every year from 2013 in the expenditure-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Can Mr. Fraser clarify that for me?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: That is okay. We will take the Chairman's time while-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I did not quite catch what that €2 million plus that is rising every year is spent on by the Office of Public Works. Gardening?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: The spend relates to staff as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I wish to go back to why we are here. I am finishing. I have less than a minute left. We have had various organisations before us, including the Garda in Templemore, and we put them under serious pressure in respect of internal audits and audit committees. We did so with the vocational education committees, VECs. That is part of our job. Mr. Fraser is here today, and this has not...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Fraser to tell me what is in place now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: The audit committee has met three times. When?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Mr. Fraser should know the exact dates. We are talking about responsibility here. We are talking about governance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Sorry. We are going from there being no audit committee to there being an audit committee. How often has it met?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: Since February.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: That is from February onwards. There were no meetings before then.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Fraser. I will leave it to the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: I want to make a comment and ask a question. It was certainly very appropriate to hold this meeting and I do not agree with any comments about it stinking or being inappropriate timing. If this Committee of Public Accounts cannot look at the appropriation account for the President's Establishment, we are in serious trouble as a committee. I fully support the Chairman in holding this...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: What is Mr. Fraser's comment on the lack of an audit committee and the lack of audit control?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is bad governance. It is a big gap in governance.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: It is not a big gap in governance not to have an audit committee and not to have an internal audit control.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Catherine Connolly: We have been through that. I am making a comment that it is bad governance not to have an audit committee functioning and an internal audit control functioning. Every single week we have this and we put questions to various organisations. It would be neither just nor fair not to put the President's Establishment through the same processes-----